Education A to Z

Education and Curriculum Terms: A Guide for Students and Teachers

Please note: This page explains a word or a process in education. It is general information about the system, the law and the guidance in England — not advice about your child, your school or your exam. If a decision is going against you, get advice from one of the free services we link to before you agree to anything or miss a deadline. If you are revising, check your own exam board's specification: boards word things differently and yours is the one that marks you.

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500 terms, showing 151–160 (page 16 of 50).

E

Evidence for a SEND meeting

What to bring, and why writing it down changes the meeting.

Exam access for medical needs

Sitting exams when you are ill, in hospital, or unable to get to school.

Exam stress

Also called Test anxiety, Exam nerves

Anxiety around exams. Common, normal in small amounts, and worth taking seriously past that.

Examiners' report

Also called Principal examiner's report, Chief examiner report

What the examiners said about last year's candidates. Free, specific, and almost nobody reads it.

Exclusion from an activity

Being sent off site for behaviour support, and the rules that apply.

Expanding brackets

Multiplying out, including double and triple brackets.

EYFS

Also called Early Years Foundation Stage, Early years

The statutory framework for children from birth to the end of Reception, covering learning, development and welfare.

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